"Identity, Culture, and Urbanism: Remarks from Colonialism to Globalization, in The Territories of Identity: Architecture in the Age of Evolving Globalisation," Soumyen Bandyopadhyay and Guillermo Garma Montiel, eds., London: Routledge, 2013.

"From Modernity to Globalization: The
Middle East in Context,” in Modernism and the Middle
East: Politics of the Built Environment, Sandy Isenstadt and
Kishwar Rizvi, eds.,University of Washington Press: Seattle, 2008.

“Consuming Heritage or the End of
Tradition: The New Challenges of Globalization,” in
New Heritage: New Media and Cultural Heritage,
eds., Yehuda Kalay, Thomas Kvan, and Janice Afflect, Routledge:
London, 2008, pp. 155-169.

“Consuming Tradition, Manufacturing
Heritage: Thoughts on Architecture in the Contemporary Moment of
Globalization,” in The Domestic and the Foreign:
Globalization in Architecture, Sang Lee and Ruth
Baumeister, eds., 010 Publishers, Rotterdam, 2007,
pp.179-205.

“’Ali Mubarak’s Cairo: Between the
Testimony of ‘Alamuddin and the Imaginary of the
Khitat,” in Making Cairo Medieval, Nezar AlSayyad,
Irene Bierman and Nasser Rabat, eds., Lexington Press, 2005, pp.
49-66.

“Manufacturing Urban Heritage, Consuming
Cultural Tradition: Implications for a Global History in the
Age of Tourism,” in New Global History and the
City, Elliot Morss, ed., New Global History Press: Mass,
2004, pp. 99-115.

“Identity, Culture, and Urbanism: Remarks from Colonialism to Globalization,” in The Multiple Faces of Identity in the Designed Environment, Architectural Design and Global Difference Research Group, Nottingham Trent University, 2009, pp. 18-27.

“Consuming Heritage or the End of Tradition:
The New Challenges of Globalization,” in New Heritage:
Beyond Verisimilitude, Thomas Kvan and Yehuda Kalay, eds.,
The University of Hong Kong, 2006, pp. 212-227.

"Balance and Imbalance: The Islamic
Middle Eastern City between Traditional and Modernity." In
Reading and Design of the Physical
Environment. International Laboratory of Architecture and
Urban Design, Urbino, Italy, 1993, pp. 26-29.

"Interpreting the Form of Urban Space:
Open Space and Urban Functions in a Cross-Cultural Context"
(with Kate Bristol and S.F. Lin). In Public
Environments: Proceedings of the Environmental Design Research
Association, Joan Harvey and Don Henning, eds. EDRA
Publications, 1987, pp. 141-152.

"Notes on the Islamic City: Aspects of
Physical and Non-Physical Structure." In The Cost
of Not Knowing: Proceedings of the 17th Annual Conference of the
Environmental Design Research Association, Richard Barnes,
Jean Wineman and Craig Zimring, eds. Omni Press: Madison,
Wisconsin, 1986, pp. 15-22.

James Heitzman, “Urban Informality:
Transnational Perspectives from the Middle East, Latin America,
and South Asia,” in Comparative Studies of South
Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 25:3, 2005, pp.
694-695.

Sophie Gilliat-Ray, “Muslim Europe or
Euro-Islam: Politics, Culture, and Citizenship in the Age of
Globalisation,” in The American Journal of Islamic
Societies, Vol. 20, No. 2, Spring 2003, pp. 130-31

Jorgen Nielsen, “The End of the Line” –a
review of Muslim Europe or Euro-Islam: Politics,
Culture, and Citizenship in the Age of Globalisation, in
The Times Literary Supplement, September 2003, pp.
10-12.

Rose Aparicio, “Muslim Europe or
Euro-Islam: Politics, Culture, and Citizenship in the Age of
Globalisation,” in The International Migration
Review, Vol. 37, No. 3, 2003, pp. 899-900.

K. Adamson, “Muslim Europe or Euro-Islam:
Politics, Culture, and Citizenship in the Age of
Globalisation,” in The Journal of Common Market
Studies, Vol. 42, No. 1, 2003.

Ali Akhbar Mahdi, “Muslim Europe or
Euro-Islam: Politics, Culture and Citizenship in the Age of
Globalization,” in Contemporary Sociology,
32:5, September 2003, pp.628-630.

Nadeen Thomas, “Muslim Europe or
Euro-Islam: Politics, Culture, and Citizenship in the Age of
Globalisation,” in The Journal of the Society for
the Anthropology of Europe, Spring 2003.

"Canavaccio: A Highway, a Railway, a Road and a River," and "Attachment/Detachment". In Reading and Design of the Physical Environment II. International Laboratory of Architecture and Urban Design, Quattro Venti, Urbino, Italy, 1993, pp. 46-51 and 124-127.

"Housing Schemes for the University of Petroleum and Minerals." A report including design proposals by the class of ED 102-1982, Jury and Analysis of Projects. UPM, College of Environmental Design, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, 1983.

"Core Housing & Site and Service Projects for Low-Income Groups," coeditor and translator. A report by the Joint Research Team on Housing (MIT/CU), Technology Adaptation Program Publications, Cambridge, 1980.

"The Master Plan of the City of Belbeis." A report by the Town Planning Diploma Group, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Graduate Studies, Cairo, Egypt, 1979.

October 2014 - Invited Keynote Speaker, "The State of Research in Vernacular Architecture," at the 7th International Symposium on Vernacular Settlements, organized by Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey.

October 2014 - Invited lecture, "From Tahrir to Occupy Central," Lecture Series of the School of Architecture at Hong Kong University, Hong Kong.

September 2014 - Invited lecture, "Fundamentalism and Revolution," Lecture Series of the School of the Middle East Institute, National University of Singapore NUS, Singapore.

September 2014 - Invited lecture, "Tahrir and the Virtual Uprising," Lecture Series of the School of Architecture and the Built Environment, National University of Singapore NUS, Singapore.

March 2011 - Invited Speaker, “Fundamentalism, Medievalism, and Urbanism,” Lecture Series of the School of Architecture and Planning, University of New Castle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom.

December 2010 - Opening remarks at “Utopia of Tradition,” the 12th Conference of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments, Beirut, Lebanon.

October 2010 - Invited Speaker, “Consuming Heritage and the End of Tradition.” Lecture Series at the School of Architecture at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

October 2010 - Session Chair, “Cinematic Urbanism in the Middle East” at the Second Biennial Symposium of the Historians of Islamic Art Association (HIAA).

July 2010 - Keynote Speaker, “Consuming Heritage and the End of Tradition” 3rd international conference on Creative Collaboration and the Making of Place, hosted by Arte-Polis 3 and the Institute of Technology, Bandung, Indonesia.

June 2010 - Invited speaker, “The Fundamentalist City?” at the Megacities Workshop,, sponsored by the New Encyclopedia Project, University of California, Irvine.

December 2008 - Opening remarks at “Interrogating Tradition,” the 11th Conference of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments, Oxford, England.

October 2008 - Invited keynote speaker,“Colonial Modernities Conference and Exhibit” organized by the House of World Cultures Museum in Berlin, German

March 2008 - Invited speaker, "Heritage and Tradition" Lecture Series of the School of Architecture, University of Minnesota, MN.

January 2008 - Invited keynote speaker, "The Modernity of Ethnicity and Race in the Cinematic City of the 1980s” at the conference Globalization, Violence, and Visual Cultures, University of London Institute, Paris, France.

December 2007 - Invited speaker, "The End of Tradition in the Middle East Region” Lecture Series in the Department of Architecture & Design, American University of Beirut (AUB), Beirut, Lebanon.

October 2007 - Invited speaker, "Consuming Heritage or the End of Tradition” Hearst Lecture Series in the Department of Architecture, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, CA.

May 2007 - Invited plenary session moderator of “Spin and Journalism: An Uneasy Coexistence,” at the Annual Conference of the International Press Institute, Istanbul Turkey

April 2007 - Invited plenary session organizer of “Empire and the Clash of Civilizations” at the 7th Doha Forum on Democracy, Development and Free Trade in Doha, Qatar .

April 2007 - Invited chair of the Open Session Track at the 60th Annual Meeting of the Society of Architectural Historians, Pittsburgh, PA.

March 2007 - Invited keynote speaker, "Post-Tradition, Hyper-Traditions and the End of Tradition” at the Annual Conference of the Ename Center for Public Archaeology and Heritage, Bruges, Belgium.

December 2006 - Opening remarks at “Hyper-Traditions,” the 10th Conference of the
International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments, Bangkok, Thailand.

December 2006 - Invited keynote speaker, “South of Doxiades: Other Ideas from Egypt,” at the Space and Progress Conference, Athens, Greece.

November 2006 - Invited speaker, “Urban Inclusion,” at the Inclusive Cities Conference at the Center for Contemporary Culture, Barcelona, Spain.

May 2006 - Invited speaker, “Consuming Heritage or the End of Tradition” at the California House, University of California Trust, London, U.K.

April 2006 - Session chair and organizer of “Architects’ Architectural Histories” at the 59th Annual Meeting of the Society of Architectural Historians, Savannah Georgia.

March 2006 - Invited speaker, “Consuming Heritage or the End of Tradition” at the New Heritage Forum, University of Hong Kong.

March 2006 - Invited guest speaker at the Berkeley Club of Hong Kong and co-sponsored by the Hong Kong Institute of Architects and the American Institute of Architects, Hong Kong

February 2006 - Invited keynote speaker, “Culture, Identity, and Urbanism in the Changing World” at the First International Symposium on Environment Behavior: People in Place in People, University of Sydney, Australia.

April 2005 - Opening remarks at the Democracy and Global Islam Conference, University of California, Berkeley.

April 2005 - Session chair and organizer of “‘Double Readings’: Encounters between Islam and the West,” at the 58th Annual Meeting of the Society of Architectural Historians, Vancouver, B.C.

March 2005 - Invited speaker, “Virtual Cairo Reconsidered,” Lecture Series at the School of Architecture and Planning, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.

March 2005 - Invited speaker, “Visualizing Cairo,” Lecture Series at Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies, New York University, NY.

February 2005 - Invited keynote speaker, "Consuming Heritage or the End of Tradition," at the 4th Annual Symposium: Architecture and Regionalism, Savannah, GA

February 2005 - Invited speaker, "The End of Tradition and Medieval Modernity: At the Dawn of a Post Global Era" at the American University of Sharjah, UAE

December 2004 - Opening remarks at “Post-Traditional Environments in a Post-Global
World” The Ninth Conference of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments, Dubai, UAE

November 2004 - Invited speaker at the Globalization, Urbanization, and Development
Symposium organized by the Annenberg School of Communication at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

October 2004 - Invited talk, "Virtual Cairo" at the American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE) Lecture Series, U.C. Berkeley, CA

July 2004 - Speaker, "Medieval Modernity" (with Ananya Roy) at the Annual Conference of the International Planning History Society (IPHS,) Barcelona, Spain

February 2004 - Keynote address, “Outreach and Public Programs in a Polarized Context” at the Fourth Annual Conference of National Resource Center Directors, United States Department of Education, Santa Fe, NM

April 2003 - "Regional Implications of the War," Address at the Chancellor's forum, Implications of the War in Iraq, organized by International Area Studies, U.C. Berkeley

April 2003 - “Consuming Tradition in an Area of Preservation” Lecture Series at
American University, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

January 1998 - Invited talk, “Virtual Cairo: The Making of a Multimedia Project,” at the
Berkeley Multimedia Resource Center Annual Conference, University of California at Berkeley

November 1997 - Public presentation, “Virtual Cairo: An Urban Design History,” at the
College of Environmental Design Lecture Series, University of California at
Berkeley

April 1997 - Closing remarks at The Courtyard House Across Cultures Conference
held at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge,
Massachusetts, USA

December 1996 - Opening remarks at “Identity, Tradition and Built Form,” the Fifth
Conference of the International Association for the Study of Traditional
Environments, Berkeley, California, USA

July 1996 - Invited talk, “Housing and Globalization,” at Housing and
Culture Conference held at Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul,
Turkey.

July 1996 - Invited talk, “Housing, Identity and Culture,” at HABITAT II: The
City Summit, organized by the United Nations, Istanbul, Turkey.

May 1996 - Invited talk, “Contesting the Madina: Dualities in the Study of Islamic Urbanism,” at The America Institute for Maghribi Studies, Tangier, Morocco.

April 1996 - Invited paper, “The Temporal Reality of Traditional Habitats,” at the
United Nations Development Programme Conference: The Next Millennium:
Cities for People in a Globalizing World, Marmaris, Turkey.

June 1995 - Invited lecture, “Arab Architecture and the Issue of Identity,” at the
Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt.

May 1995 - Invited lecture “Third World Architecture and the Question of Housing,” at the Schools of Architecture at the University of Capetown and the University of Pretoria, South Africa.

April 1995 - Invited lecture, “Culture, Identity, and Urbanism in a Changing World,”
at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars,
Washington, DC, USA.

February 1995 - “The Early Cities of Islam,” Public Lecture Series of Beit Al-Quran in
Manama, Bahrain.

January 1995 - Invited keynote address, “Traditional Architecture: The Myth and Reality,” at the Bahrain Society of Engineers Conference held in Manama,
Bahrain.

December 1994 - Keynote address, “Traditional Settlements: From Colonialism to Globalization,” at Value in Tradition, the Fourth Conference of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments, Tunis, Tunisia.

November 1994 - Invited lecture, “Housing and the Nation-State: The Case of Tunisia,”
at the American Research Center in Tunis, Tunisia.

November 1994 - Invited lecture, “Local Planning Practices in the United States,” at
Technological Institute of Art, Architecture, and Urbanism of
Tunisia (ITAAUT), Tunis, Tunisia.

September 1994 - Invited lecture, “The Traditional Architecture and Urbanism of the Islamic World,” at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Lecture Series,
Nevada, USA.

May 1994 - "Computer Simulation: Medieval Islamic Cities," at the Bologna Symposium on New Methods in Architectural Media, organized by the School of Architecture, Ferrara, Italy.

April 1994 - "At Home with Mother Earth: Akkiwan." Public Presentation of the video documentary co-written and co-produced by Nezar AlSayyad, College of Environmental Design Lecture Series, University of California at Berkeley, California, USA.

April 1993 - Invited lecture, "Medieval Urbanism in Europe and the Middle East," at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada.

December 1992 - Invited lecture, "Buildings and Projects," at the College of Environmental Design Lecture Series, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA.

October 1992 - Opening remarks at "Development vs. Tradition," the Third Conference of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments, Paris, France.

July 1992 - Invited lecture, "Balance and Imbalance," at the International Laboratory for Architecture and Urban Design (ILAUD), Urbino, Italy.

April 1992 - Invited lecture, "The Islamic City: On the Transfer of Ideas," at the San Francisco Planning Department, Lecture Series, San Francisco, California.

April 1992 - Keynote lecture, "The Genesis of Cairo and Its Development," at the Egyptian American Organization Annual Event, Los Angeles, California.

March 1992 - Invited lecture, "An Architect Between Two Worlds," at the University of Nevada Las Vegas, Lecture Series, Las Vegas, Nevada.

March 1992 - "Ph.D. Programs in Architecture and the Academic-Professional Linkage," at the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Annual Conference, Orlando, Florida.

November 1991 - Keynote lecture, "Architectural Education and the Global Transformations," at the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Administrators Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

July 1991 - Keynote lecture, "Dwelling Form and Desert Culture," at the Design for Desert Living Conference, organized by the University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona.

May 1991 - Keynote Lecture, " Housing Policy and Housing Form," at the Housing: Cross-Cultural Perspectives Conference organized by the School of Architecture of the University of California, San Diego, California, USA.

April 1991 - "Baghdad and Al-Qahirah: On the Genesis of Urban Form," at the Society of Architectural Historians Annual Meeting, Cincinnati, Ohio.

October 1990 - Concluding remarks, "A Course of Action," at First World/Third World: Duality and Coincidence in Traditional Environments, the Second Conference of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments, held at the University of California, Berkeley, USA.

November 1989 - "Architectural Education and the First World/Third World Dilemma: A Symposium," at Third International Forum on Built Form and Culture Research, Tempe, Arizona, USA.

October 1989 - "The Early Towns of Arab Islam: Towards a History of Planning," at the Annual Conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Portland, Oregon, USA.

April 1989 - "Basra and Kouffa: Arab and Western Attitudes on Muslim Urban Form," at the Society of Architectural Historians Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada.

November 1988 - "The Arab Muslim Garrison Town," at the Annual Conference of the Middle East Studies Association, Los Angeles, California, USA.

June 1988 - Invited speaker, "Urban Open Space Between East and West," at the Public Lecture Series, School of Architecture, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain.

April 1988 - Opening remarks, "The Study of Traditional Environments," at the International Symposium on Traditional Dwellings and Settlements, held at the University of California, Berkeley, USA.

November 1987 - "Towards a Cross Cultural Interpretation of City Form,” at the Annual Conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Los Angeles, California.

November 1987 - "On the Physical Form of the Pre Industrial Muslim City," at the Annual Conference of the Middle East Studies Association, Baltimore, Maryland.

October 1987 - "The Concept of Urban Renewal: Comparative Notes," at the Annual Conference of the International Association of Housing Science, Berlin, Germany.

June 1987 - "Interpreting the Form of Urban Space: Open Space and Urban Activity in a Cross Cultural Perspective," at the Environmental Design Research Association, EDRA 18 Conference, Ottawa, Canada.

July 1986 - Invited speaker, "Ethics and Housing Policy in the Third World," at EDGE: Ethics of Development in the Global Environment, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.

April 1986 - "Notes on the Islamic City," at the Environmental Design Research Association, EDRA 17 Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

July 1984 - "Urban Space in the Islamic City of Cairo," at the Seminar on Housing in the Islamic City, Islamic Capitals Organization Conference, Ankara, Turkey.

September 1983 - "Preserving the Spaces of the Islamic City, A Case Study of Cairo," at The International Symposium for the Conservation of the Old City of Aleppo, Syrian Architects Syndicate & the University of Aleppo, Aleppo, Syria.

December 1982 - "Small Towns versus New Towns: An Assessment of National Development Policies in the Middle East," at Small Town in National Development: Towards Rural Urban Integration in Developing Countries, International Symposium, Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand.

September 1982 - "Some Patterns in Islamic Urban Design: The Role of Space, Past and Present," at the Association of Muslim Scientists and Engineers, Annual Conference on Science and Technology for Muslim World Development, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA.

April 1981 - Invited paper, "Lessons from the Past: Facade Architecture of Medieval Cairo," at the American Research Center in Egypt, Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

January 1981 - Invited paper, "Some Visual Aspects of Streets in Medieval Cairo," at the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University and MIT Annual Meeting, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.

March 1979 - "Agricultural Development versus Urban Development," at International Youth Congress on Food and Development, Cairo, Egypt.